CURRICULUM VITAE
NAME:
Boyd Hamilton HUNTER
CONTACT DETAILS:
Address:
Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research, The Australian National University, Canberra ACT 0200,
AUSTRALIA
Tel. work:
+61 2 6125 8207
E-mail:
Boyd.Hunter@anu.edu.au
TERTIARY QUALIFICATIONS:
1996
Doctor of Philosophy, Economics Program, Research School of Social Sciences, ANU, Canberra
1991
Masters of Economics, ANU
1989
Graduate Diploma in Economics, ANU
1988
Certificate of Occupational Health and Safety, Reid TAFE
1987
Bachelor of Arts, ANU
HONOURS, PRIZES, AWARDS and GRANTS:
2010–13
Australian Research Council (ARC) Discovery Project (DP110101879), ‘From welfare to work, or work to
welfare: Will reform of the Community Development Employment Program help close the employment gap?’
(with Altman, J.C., Sanders, W.G. and Jordan, K.)
2009–10
ARC Discovery Indigenous Researchers Development Project (DI0989056) ‘Adoption and Effective Use of
Information Communication Technologies in Indigenous Communities in Australia’ (with Radoll PJ, Jacobs KR,
Fernandez WD, and Dodson M)
2007–12
ARC Discovery Project (DP0772382), ‘Indigenous Australians and alcohol control: The impact of hotel
ownership on harm reduction and social and economic development’ (with Brady, M)
2007-2010
ARC Linkage Project (LP0776958), ‘An inter-disciplinary analysis of the dynamics of Aboriginal interactions
with the criminal justice system’ (with Schwab, R.G. & Dr Weatherburn, D.J.)
2003–06
ARC Linkage Project (LP0348733), ‘Pathways to Improved Educational Attainment for Indigenous Australians:
Social and Institutional Factors Underlying School Participation’ (with Schwab, R.G)
2005
Visiting Research Fellowship at the New Zealand Treasury, Wellington to study ‘Urban Indigenous populations
in the NZ, US and Australia: Case studies of policy invisibility?’
2002-2003
Australian Census Analytic Program Fellowship with the Australian Bureau of Statistics
1998-2001
Awarded a Ronald Henderson Research Fellowship to research ‘The importance of social and economic
interactions in Indigenous employment: the appropriate policy mix or just mixed policies’ for the Ronald
Henderson Foundation, Melbourne
1996
Awarded an New Starters Grant by The Faculties, ANU
1992
Awarded an Australian National University Phd Scholarship
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Awarded an Australian National University Masters Scholarship
1989
Graduate Diploma Prize in Economics and Public Economic Policy
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CURRENT APPOINTMENTS/ AFFILIATIONS
2013-
Research Fellow, IZA, Bonn, Germany
2007-
Senior Fellow, CAEPR, ANU, Canberra
OTHER ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS
2001-2006
Fellow, CAEPR, ANU, Canberra
1997-2000
Research Fellow, CAEPR, ANU, Canberra
1998
Visitor, Economics Program, Research School of Social Sciences, ANU, Canberra
1995-97
Post-Doctoral Fellow, CAEPR, ANU, Canberra
1992-4
Part-time tutor in Economic Principles, Economic Statistics, Industrial Organisation (also guest lecturer) ANU,
Canberra
OTHER WORK HISTORY
1990
Graduate Economist, Department of Industrial Relations, Canberra
1988-89
CSIRO, Archival Assistant, Canberra
1987
Accounts Clerk, Department of Industrial Relations, Canberra
1987
Research Assistant, Federal Branch of the Municipal Officers Association, Melbourne
1986
Chairman (Full-time) of the Board of Management, ANU Student’s Union
1979-85
1978
Clerk, Department of Social Security, Brisbane
Engineer’s Assistant and Deck Hand on the HMAS Akuna
PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS
2013– Research Affiliate Centre for Economic History, College of Business and Economics, The ANU.
2013–Research Fellow, The Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn, Germany.
2013– Co-editor of The Australian Journal of Social Issues (with Julie Lahn).
2009–2014 Appointed to the Scientific Reference Group of Indigenous Clearinghouse jointly run by AIHW and AIFS
2008–2013 Managing Editor of the Australian Journal of Labour Economics (also Editorial Board member since 2000). Also
held ongoing position of Joint Editor since 2005.
2004–2012 Member of the Steering and Design Committees of the Longitudinal Study of Indigenous Children
2000– Member of the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies
1999–2004 Research Associate of The Centre for Applied Economics, The Hawke Institute, School of International Business, The
University of South Australia
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1995– Member of the ACT Branch of the Economic Society of Australia
PUBLICATIONS (asterisk denotes most significant publications)
Refereed articles in academic journals
Hunter, B. 2016. ‘Whose business is it to employ Indigenous workers?’, Economics and Labour Relations Review Will be
available at Sage Online soon (Accepted 3 June 2015).
Hunter, B.H. and Carmody, J. 2015. ‘Estimating the Aboriginal population in early colonial Australia: the role of chickenpox
reconsidered’, Australian Economic History Review, published online first 29 May, DOI: 10.1111/aehr.12068, pp.1–28 *
Edwards, B., Gray, M. and Hunter, B. 2014. The Impact of Drought on Mental Health in Rural and Regional Australia’, Social
Indicators Research, Online First DOI 10.1007/s11205-014-0638-2.
Gray, M., Howlett, M. and Hunter, B. 2014. ‘Labour market outcomes for Indigenous Australians’, The Economic and Labour
Relations Review, 25(3): 497–517 DOI: 10.1177/1035304614545943.
Hunter, B. 2014. ‘Reflecting on the growth of Indigenous self-employment’, Agenda, 21(1): 45–66.
Hunter, B. 2014. ‘Conversations With Eminent Labour Economists: Alison Booth’, Australian Journal of Labour Economics, 17
(1): 5–14.
Hunter, B., Kalb, G. and Le, T. 2014. ‘Do age and experience always go together? The example of Indigenous employment’,
Australian Journal of Labour Economics, 17 (2): 67–85.
Kalb, G., Le, T., Hunter, B. and Leung, F. 2014. ‘Identifying Important Factors for Closing the Gap in Labour Force Status
between Indigenous and Non-Indigenous Australians’, The Economic Record, 90(291): 536–50.
Biddle, N., Howlett, M., Hunter, B. and Paradies, Y. 2013, ‘Labour Market and other Discrimination facing Indigenous
Australians’, Australian Journal of Labour Economics, 16(1): 91–113.
Foley, D., and Hunter, B. 2013, ‘What is an Indigenous Australian Business?’, Australian Journal of Indigenous Issues, 16(3):
66–74.
Hunter, B., and Daly, A. 2013 ‘The Labour Supply of Indigenous Australian Females: the effects of fertility and interactions with
the justice system’, Journal of Population Research, 30(1): 1–18*
Hunter, B. and Gray, M. 2013a. Workplace Agreements and Indigenous-Friendly Workplaces, Indigenous Law Bulletin, 8(8): 7–
13.
Hunter, B. and Gray, M. 2013b. 'Continuity and Change in the CDEP scheme', Australian Journal of Social Issues, 48(1): 35–56.
Hunter, B., Gray, M. & Edwards, B. 2013. ‘The use of social surveys to measure drought and the impact of drought’, Social
Indicators Research, 113(1): 419–432.*
Dodson, M., Hunter, B., and McKay, M., 2012. ‘The Longitudinal Study of Indigenous Children: A guide for the uninitiated’,
Family Matters, 91: 67–80.
Hunter, B., and Gray, M. 2012. ‘Indigenous Labour Supply following a Period of Strong Economic Growth’, Australian Journal
of Labour Economics, 15(2): 141–59.
Edwards, B, Gray, M.C. and Hunter, B.H. 2011. ‘The impact of drought on carers’ Australian Journal of Labour Economics,
14(2): 199–214
Hunter, B., and Ayyar, A. 2011. ‘Undercounts in Offender Data and Closing the Gap Between Indigenous and Other Australians’,
Australian Journal of Social Issues, 46(1): 69-89.
Hunter, B.H. and Jordan, K.2010. Explaining Social exclusion: Towards Social Inclusion for Indigenous Australians’, Australian
Journal of Social Issues, 45(2): 243–65.
Hunter, B.H. 2010. ‘Revisiting the Relationship Between the Macroeconomy and Indigenous Labour Force Status’, Economic
Papers, 29(3): 320–32.
Altman, J.C. & Biddle, N. & Hunter, B.H. 2009. ‘Prospects for ‘closing the gap’ in socioeconomic outcomes for Indigenous
Australians?’, Australian Economic History Review, 49(3): 225–51. *
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Chapman, B. and Hunter, B. 2009 ‘Exploring Creative Applications of Income Contingent Loans’, Journal of Labour Economics,
12(2): 133–44.
Edwards, B. Gray, M. and Hunter, B. 2009. ‘A sunburnt country: The economic and financial impact of drought on rural and
regional families in Australia in an era of climate change’, Australian Journal of Labour Economics, 12(1): 109–31.
Gray, M.C. and Hunter, B.H. 2009. ‘Families through Life: Selected issues for labour economists’, Australian Journal of Labour
Economics, 12(1): 1–4.
Hunter, B.H. 2009. ‘A half-hearted defence of CDEP scheme’, Family Matters, 81: 43–54. Available online at www.aifs.gov.au
Hunter, B.H. 2009 ‘Indigenous Social Exclusion: Insights and Challenges for the Concept of Social Inclusion’, Family Matters,
82: 52–61.
Jordan, K. and Hunter, B.H. 2009. ‘Indigenous social exclusion and inclusion: what are people to be included in, and who
decides?’, Impact, Spring: 18–21.
Hunter, B. 2008. ‘Is policy the problem or the solution for Indigenous people?’, Agenda, 15 (3): 95–7.
Hunter, B.H. 2008. ‘Benchmarking the Indigenous sub-sample of the Longitudinal Survey of Australian Children: Implications for
Indigenous policy direction’, Australian Social Policy Journal, 7: 61–84.
Weatherburn, D., Snowball, L. and Hunter, B.H. 2008. ‘Predictors of Indigenous arrest: An exploratory study’, Australian and
New Zealand Journal of Criminology, 41(2): 307–22*
Hunter, B.H. 2007. ‘Cumulative Causation and the Productivity Commission’s Framework for Overcoming Indigenous
Disadvantage?, Australian Journal of Labour Economics, 10(3): 185–202. Available online
Hunter, B.H. 2007 ‘Conspicuous Compassion and Wicked Problems: The Howard Government’s National Emergency in
Indigenous Affairs’, Agenda, 14 (3): 35–54. available at: epress.anu.edu.au (accessed 28 October 2014). Reprinted and re-edited
for Harambee, Journal of Tear Australia, January 2008 Issue: 10–5.
Hunter, B.H. 2007 ‘The 2002 National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Survey’, Australian Economic Review, 40(3):
313–22.
Hunter, B.H. 2007. ‘Arguing over [the] remote control: Why indigenous policy needs to be based on evidence and not hyperbole’,
Economic Papers, 26(1) 44–63 *
Biddle, N. and Hunter, B.H. 2006. ‘Some methodological issues for the 2002 NATSISS’, Australian Journal of Labour
Economics, 9(1): 33–50.
Biddle, N. and Hunter, B.H. 2006 ‘An analysis of the internal migration of Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians’,
Australian Journal of Labour Economics, 9(4): 321–41.
Dodson, M and Hunter, B. 2006. ‘Selected crime and justice issues for Indigenous families’, Family Matters, 75: 34–41 Available
at www.aifs.gov.au (accessed 28 October 2014).*
Flatau, P. and Hunter, B. 2006. ‘New Perspectives on the Labour Market: Extending analysis using ABS CURFs’, Australian
Journal of Labour Economics, 9(2): 95–7.
Hunter, B.H. 2006. ‘Further explorations of the role of crime in Indigenous employment status’, Australian Journal of Labour
Economics, 9(2): 217–237.
Hunter, B.H. 2006. ‘The ‘Peter Pan’ of Australian Economic Policy Research’, The Economic Record, 82(257): 127–37.
Hunter, B.H. 2006. ‘Further Skirmishes in the Poverty War: Income Status and financial stress among Indigenous Australians’,
Australian Journal of Labour Economics, 9 (1): 51–64.
Hunter, B.H. 2006. ‘Introduction for the Special Issue on the 2002 National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Survey
(NATSISS)’, Australian Journal of Labour Economics, 9 (1): 3–4.
Hunter, B.H. and Dungey, M.H. 2006. ‘Creating a sense of ‘CLOSURE’: Providing confidence intervals on some recent estimates
of indigenous populations’, Canadian Studies in Population, 33(1): 1–23. *
Hunter, B.H. and Gray, M.C. 2006. ‘The effectiveness of Indigenous job search strategies’, The Economic Record, 82(256): 1–10.
Weatherburn, D., Snowball, L. and Hunter, B.H. 2006 ‘The economic and social factors underpinning Indigenous contact with the
justice system: Results from the 2002 NATSISS survey’, Crime and Justice Bulletin, 104 (November) 1–16
Altman, J.C. & Biddle, N. & Hunter, B.H. 2005. ‘A historical perspective on Indigenous socioeconomic outcomes, 1971–2001’,
Australian Economic History Review, 45(3): 273–295. *
Gray, M.C. and Hunter, B.H. 2005. ‘Indigenous Job Search Behaviour’, Economics and Labour Relations Review, 16(1): 71–94.*
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Gray, M.C. and Hunter, B.H. 2005. ‘The labour market dynamics of Indigenous Australians’, Journal of Sociology, 41(4): 389–
408 *
Gray, M.C., Heath, A. and Hunter, B.H. 2005 ‘The labour force dynamics of the marginally attached’, Australian Economic
Papers, 44(1): 1–44 *
Hunter, B.H. 2004. ‘Taming The Social Capital Hydra?’, Learning Communities: International Journal of Learning in Social
Contexts, 2004(2): 19–35*
Hunter, B.H., Kennedy, S. and Biddle, N. 2004. ‘Indigenous and other Australian poverty: Revisiting the importance of
equivalence scales’, Economic Record, 80(251): 411–22. *
Hunter, B.H. and Taylor, J. 2004. ‘Forecasts of Indigenous labour force status to 2011: Implications for reconciliation’, Agenda,
11(2): 179–92
Altman, J.C. & Hunter, B.H. 2003. ‘Evaluating Indigenous Socioeconomic Outcomes in the Reconciliation Decade, 1991–2001’,
Economic Papers, 22 (4): 1–15*
Hunter, B.H. 2003. ‘The rise of the CDEP scheme and changing factors underlying Indigenous employment’, Australian Journal
of Labour Economics, 6(2): 473–96.
Hunter, B.H. 2003. ‘Trends in neighbourhood inequality of Australian, Canadian and US cities since the 1970s’, The Australian
Economic History Review, 43(1): 22–44.*
Hunter, B., Kennedy, S. and Smith, D. 2003. ‘Household composition, equivalence scales and the reliability of income
distributions: Some evidence for Indigenous and other Australians’, Economic Record, 79(244): 70–83.*
Hunter, B.H. and Schwab, R.G. 2003. ‘Practical reconciliation and continuing disadvantage in Indigenous education’, The
Drawing Board: A Journal of Public Affairs, 4 (2): 83–98.
Gray, M.C. and Hunter, B.H. 2002. ‘A cohort analysis of labour market outcomes of Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians,
1986–96’, Australian Economic Review, 35(4): 391-404.*
Hunter, B.H. and Gray, M.C. 2002. ‘Family and social factors underlying the labour force status of Indigenous Australians’,
Family Matters, 62 (Winter): 18–25. available at www.aifs.gov.au (accessed 28 October 2014).
Gray, M., Heath, A. and Hunter, B. 2002. ‘An exploration of marginal attachment to the Australian labour market’, Reserve Bank
Research Discussion Paper No. 2002/7, RBA, Sydney, available at www.rba.gov.au (accessed 28 October 2014).
Hunter, B.H. and Hawke, A.E. 2002. ‘Industrial relations in workplaces employing Indigenous Australians’, Australian Journal of
Labour Economics, 5(3): 373–95.
Hunter, B.H. and Smith, D.E. 2002. ‘Surveying mobile populations: Lessons from recent longitudinal surveys of Indigenous
Australians’, Australian Economic Review, 35(3): 261–275 *
Hunter, B.H. and Gray, M.C. 2001. ‘Indigenous Labour Force Status Re-visited: Factors Associated with the Discouraged Worker
Phenomenon’, Australian Journal of Labour Economics, 4(2): 115–37
Hunter, B.H. and Gray, M.C. 2001. ‘Analysing recent changes in Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians income: a synthetic
panel approach’, Australian Economic Review, 34(2):135–54 *
Hunter, B.H. and Hawke, A.E. 2001. ‘A comparative analysis of the industrial relations experiences of Indigenous and other
Australian workers’, The Journal of Industrial Relations, 43(1), 44–65 *
Hunter, B.H. and Sullivan, E. 2001. ‘Anne Elizabeth Hawke: 1966–2000’, Australian Journal of Labour Economics, 4(1): 53–58
Hunter, B. and Taylor, J. 2001. ‘The reliability of Indigenous employment estimates’, Agenda, 8 (2): 113-128
Hunter, B.H. and Taylor, J. 2001. ‘Indigenous jobs growth and unemployment, 1996-2006: The impact of CDEP’, Australian
Journal of Labour Economics, 4(2): 65–76
Hunter, B.H. 2000. ‘The social costs of Indigenous unemployment’, Economic and Labour Relations Review, 11(2): 213–32
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Borland, J. and Hunter, B. 2000. ‘Does crime affect employment status?—the case of Indigenous Australians’, Economica, 67(1):
123–44 *
Gray, M.C., Hunter, B. and Schwab, R.G. 2000. ‘Trends in Indigenous educational participation and attainment, 1986–96’,
Australian Journal of Education, 44(2): 125–46 *
Hunter, B. and Borland, J. 1999. The effect of the high rate of Indigenous arrest on employment prospects, Crime and Justice
Bulletin, 45 (June): 1–8
Hunter, B. and Borland, J. 1999. ‘How arrest affects Indigenous employment, Impact: Journal of the Australian Council of Social
Service, September: 1–16
Daly A. and Hunter, B. 1999. ‘Incentives to work: replacement ratios and the cost of job loss among unemployed Indigenous
Australians’, Australian Economic Review, 32(3): 219–36 *
Hunter, B.H. and Gray, M.C. 1999. ‘Changes in Indigenous Labour force Status, 1986–2006’, in Jenny Lee, Belinda Probert and
Rob Watts (eds), Work in the New Economy: Policy, Programs, Populations, Centre for Applied Social Research, Royal
Melbourne Institute of Technology, Melbourne, pp. 177–97
Hunter, B.H. and Gray, M.C. 1999. ‘Changes in the distribution of personal income of Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians
between 1976 and 1996’ in S. Shaver and P. Saunders (eds) Social Policy for the 21st Century: Justice and Responsibility:
Proceedings of the National Social Policy Conference, Sydney, 21-23 July 1999, Social Policy Research Centre Reports and
Proceedings No. 142, Volume 1, Social Policy Research Centre, Sydney, pp. 117–32
Hunter, B.H. 1998. ‘Assessing the validity of intercensal comparisons of Indigenous Australians, 1986-96’, Journal of the
Australian Population Association, 15(1): 51–67
Hunter, B.H. 1998. ‘Realism Revisited: A Reply to Hawke’s Alternative View’, The Journal of Industrial Relations, 40(2): 306–9
Hunter, B.H. 1998. ‘Addressing youth unemployment: re-examining social and locational disadvantage within Australian cities’,
Urban Policy and Research, 16(1): 47–58
Hunter, B.H. and Gray, M.C. 1998. ‘Recent changes in the Australian workforce: a focus on the structure of Indigenous
employment’, Australian Bulletin of Labour, 24(3): 220–40
Hunter, B.H. 1997. ‘An Indigenous Worker’s Guide to the Workplace Relations and Other Legislation Amendment Act’, The
Journal of Industrial Relations, 39(4): 439–56 *
Hunter, B.H. 1997. ‘The determinants of Indigenous employment outcomes: the importance of education and training’, Australian
Bulletin of Labour, 23(3): 177–92
Altman, J.C. and Hunter, B.H. 1997. ‘Research Strategies for Measuring Indigenous Poverty’ in P. Saunders and T. Eardley (eds)
States, Markets, Communities: Remapping the Boundaries, Social Policy Research Centre Reports and Proceedings No. 137,
Volume 1, Social Policy Research Centre, Sydney
Hunter, B. and Taylor, J. 1997. ‘Indigenous labour force status to the year 2000: estimated impacts of recent budget cuts’,
Economic Papers, 16(1): 29–39
Taylor, J. and Hunter, B. 1997. ‘Promoting growth in Indigenous employment: the role of the Indigenous private sector’,
Australian Bulletin of Labour, 23(4): 269–87.
Altman, J.C. and Hunter, B. 1996. ‘Welfare assistance and the Indigenous labour force: an analysis’, People and Place, May, 4(2):
46–58.
Gregory R.G. and Hunter, B.H. 1996. ‘An exploration of the relationship between changing inequality of individual, household
and regional income in Australian cities’, Urban Policy and Research, 14(3): 171–82
Taylor J. Hunter, B., Cunningham, J. and Ross, K. 1996. ‘National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Survey 1994:
Employment Outcomes for Indigenous Australians’, Australian Indigenous Law Reporter, 1(4): 668–75.
Hunter, B.H. 1995. ‘The Social Structure of the Australian Urban Labour Market: 1976-1991’, Australian Economic Review,
2’95: 65–79 *
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Hunter, B.H. 1995. ‘Is there an Australian Underclass?’, Urban Futures: Issues for Australian Cities’, 18/95: 14–24.
Gregory R.G. and B.H. Hunter 1995. ‘Further remarks on neighbourhood inequality’, Social Security Journal, June 1995: 20–8
Books and monographs
Hunter, B.H. and Biddle, N.G. (eds) 2012. Survey Analysis for Indigenous Policy in Australia: Social Science Perspectives,
CAEPR Research Monograph No. 32, ANU E-Press, Canberra.
Edwards, B., Gray, M., Baxter, J. and Hunter, B. 2009. The tyranny of distance?: Carers in regional and remote areas of Australia,
Commonwealth of Australia, Canberra.
Hunter, B.H. 2006 (ed.) Assessing Recent Evidence on Indigenous Socioeconomic Outcomes: A focus on the 2002 NATSISS,
CAEPR Monograph No. 26, ANU E-press, Canberra
Gray, M.C., Hunter, B.H. and Taylor J. 2004. Health expenditure, income and health status among Indigenous and other
Australians, CAEPR Monograph No. 21, ANU E-press, Canberra.
Hunter, B.H. 2004. Indigenous Australians in the Contemporary Labour Market, Australian Census Analytic Program Series, cat.
no. 2052.0, ABS, Canberra.
Gray, M.C., Hunter, B.H. and Taylor J.) 2002. Health expenditure, income and health status among Indigenous and other
Australians, CAEPR Monograph No. 21, CAEPR, ANU, Canberra*
Hunter, B.H. 2001. Factors underlying Indigenous arrests rates, Report to the New South Wales Bureau of Crime Statistics and
Research, Sydney, available at www.bocsar.nsw.gov.au (accessed 28 October 2014).
Taylor J. and Hunter, B.H. 1998. The Job Still Ahead: Economic Costs of Continuing Indigenous Employment Disparity,
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission, Canberra (available in electronic format at http://online.anu.edu.au/caepr/) *
Taylor J., Hunter, B., Cunningham, J. and Ross, K.) 1996. Employment Outcomes for Indigenous Australians, ABS Cat.
No. 4199.0, ABS, Canberra.
Hunter, B.H. 1995. ‘Changes in the Geographic Dispersion of Urban Employment in Australia 1976-1991’, unpublished Phd
Thesis, ANU, Canberra *
Book Reviews
Hunter, B.H. 2015. Review of Everything you Need to Know About the Referendum to Recognise Indigenous Australians by
Megan Davis and George Williams (NewSouth, Sydney, 2015), The Economic Record, Accepted 8 April 2015 and coming out in
the September Issue).
Hunter, B.H. 2013 ‘Review of Frontier History Revisited: Colonial Queensland and the History War by Robert Ørsted-Jensen’,
Australian Economic History Review, 53(3): 326–8.
Hunter, B.H. 2011. Review of Disconnected by Andrew Leigh, MHR, The Economic Record, 87(277): 345–47.
Hunter, B.H. 2008. ‘Revisiting the Role of Rhetoric in Economics’, A book review of Lands of Shame: Aboriginal and Torres
Strait Islander ‘Homelands’ in Transition, by Helen Hughes, The Economic Record, 84(265) 279–81.
Hunter, B.H. 2008. ‘Water, diamonds and other paradoxes’, A review of Thirsty Country: Options for Australia, by Asa,
Wahlquist, Agenda, 15(4): 77–9.
Chapters in edited volumes
Hunter, B.H. 2015. ‘The Aboriginal Legacy’, Chapter 4 in Simon Ville and Glenn Withers The Cambridge Economic History of
Australia, CUP, Cambridge, 73–96.
Hunter, B. and Biddle, N. 2012. ‘Towards a broader understanding of Indigenous disadvantage’ in Boyd Hunter and Nicholas
Biddle (eds) Survey Analysis for Indigenous Policy in Australia: Social Science Perspectives, CAEPR Research Monograph No.
32, ANU E-Press, Canberra.
Hunter, B.H. 2012. ‘Is Indigenous poverty different from other poverty?’ in Boyd Hunter and Nicholas Biddle (eds) Survey
Analysis for Indigenous Policy in Australia: Social Science Perspectives, CAEPR Research Monograph No. 32, ANU E-Press,
Canberra.
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Hunter, B.H. 2010. ‘Socio-Economic Conditions: Reconciling Practical Reconciliation with Indigenous Disadvantage in the
Howard Years’ in Andrew Gunstone (ed.) Over a Decade of Despair: Howard Government and Indigenous Affairs, Australian
Scholarly Publishing, North Melbourne.
Altman, J.C. and Hunter, B.H. 2006. ‘Influencing Indigenous policy making with statistics’ in B.H. Hunter (ed.) Assessing Recent
Evidence on Indigenous Socioeconomic Outcomes: A focus on the 2002 NATSISS, CAEPR Monograph No. 26, ANU E-press,
ANU, Canberra.
Biddle, N. and Hunter, B.H. 2006. ‘Selected methodological issues for analysis of the 2002 NATSISS’ in B.H. Hunter (ed.)
Assessing Recent Evidence on Indigenous Socioeconomic Outcomes: A focus on the 2002 NATSISS, CAEPR Monograph No. 26,
ANU E-press, ANU, Canberra.
Dodson, M. and Hunter, B. 2006. ‘Crime and justice issues’ in B.H. Hunter (ed.) Assessing Recent Evidence on Indigenous
Socioeconomic Outcomes: A focus on the 2002 NATSISS, CAEPR Monograph No. 26, ANU E-press, ANU, Canberra.
Hunter, B.H. 2006. ‘Revisiting the poverty war: income status and financial stress among Indigenous Australians’ in B.H. Hunter
(ed.) Assessing Recent Evidence on Indigenous Socioeconomic Outcomes: A focus on the 2002 NATSISS, CAEPR Monograph
No. 26, ANU E-press, ANU, Canberra.
Hunter, B.H. 2006. ‘Preface’ in B.H. Hunter (ed.) Assessing Recent Evidence on Indigenous Socioeconomic Outcomes: A focus
on the 2002 NATSISS, CAEPR Monograph No. 26, ANU E-press, ANU, Canberra.
Hunter, B.H., Arthur, W.S. and Morphy, F. 2005. ‘Social Justice’ in W. S. Arthur and F. Morphy (eds) Macquarie Atlas of
Indigenous Australia, Macquarie Library Pty Ltd, Sydney.
Altman, J.C. and Hunter, B.H. 2005. ‘Economy’ in W. S. Arthur and F. Morphy (eds) Macquarie Atlas of Indigenous Australia,
Macquarie Library Pty Ltd, Sydney.
Hunter, B.H. 2005. ‘The role of discrimination and the exclusion of Indigenous people from the labour market’ in Culture,
Economy and Governance in Aboriginal Australia (eds D. Austin-Broos and G. Macdonald), University of Sydney Press, Sydney,
79–94.
Gray M.C., Hunter, B.H. and Taylor J. 2004. ‘Health expenditure, income and health status among Indigenous and other
Australians’ in M. Otim, I. Anderson and I. Scott (eds) Economics and Indigenous Australian Health Policy, VicHealth Koori
Health Research and Community Development Unit, University of Melbourne, Melbourne.
Altman, J.C., Hunter, B.H., Ward, S. and Wright, F. 2002. ‘The Indigenous visual arts industry’ in J. Altman & S. Ward (eds)
Competition and Consumer Issues for Indigenous Australians, Australian Competition and Consumer Commission, Canberra: 64–
101.
Hunter, B. and Taylor, J. 2002. ‘An overview of the costs of Indigenous unemployment’ in Saunders, P. and Taylor, R. The Price
of Prosperity: The economic and social costs of unemployment, University of New South Wales Press, Sydney, 109–33. *
Gregory, R.G. and Hunter, B.H 2001. ‘The Growth of Income and Employment Inequality in Australian Cities’, in G. Wong and
G. Picot (eds), Working Time in Comparative Perspective, Volume 1: Patterns, Trends and the Policy Implications of Earnings
Inequality and Unemployment, W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research, Kalamazoo, Michigan.
Taylor, J. and Hunter, B. 2001. ‘Demographic Challenges to the Future of CDEP’, in F. Morphy and W. Sanders (eds) CAEPR
Monograph No. 20, CAEPR, ANU, Canberra, 95–108.
Hunter, B.H 2001. ‘Tackling poverty among Indigenous Australians’ in R. Fincher and P. Saunders (eds) Creating Unequal
Futures, Allen and Unwin, Sydney, 129–57. *
Hunter, B.H 1999. ‘Comments on the draft report’, in Office of Evaluation and Audit’s Evaluation of the Housing Infrastructure
Priority Projects Program (HIPP), Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission, Canberra, 87–90.
Altman, J.C. and Hunter, B.H. 1998. ‘Indigenous Poverty’ in R. Fincher and J. Nieuwenhuysen Australian Poverty Now and Then,
Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, 238–57. *
Hunter, B.H. 1996. ‘Indigenous Australians in the labour market: the NATSIS and beyond’, in J.C. Altman and J. Taylor (eds)
The 1994 National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Survey: Findings and Future Prospects, CAEPR Monograph No. 11,
CAEPR, ANU, Canberra
Gregory R.G. and Hunter, B.H. 1996. ‘Increasing regional inequality and the decline of manufacturing’ in Sheehan, P. Grewal, B.
and Kumnick, M. eds. Dialogues on Australia’s Future: in honour of the late Professor Ronald Henderson, Centre for Strategic
Economic Studies, Melbourne, 1996
Gregory R.G. and Hunter, B.H. 1996. ‘Spatial differentials in income distribution trends’, in Department of Transport and
Regional Development, The proceedings of workshop on spatial inequality, AGPS, Canberra
Gregory R.G. and Hunter, B.H. 1994. ‘Employment, income and Australian neighbourhoods’ in Callus, R. and Scumacher, M.
eds. Current Research in Industrial Relations: Proceedings of the 8th AIRAANZ Conference, February 1994: 651–96
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Hunter, B.H. 1993. ‘Determinants of Neighbourhood Income in Australia between 1976 and 1991.’ Economics Phd Conference
Proceedings, University of Western Australia, Perth.
Refereed Conference Papers
Foley, D., and Hunter, B. 2014. ‘The marriage of qualitative and quantitative research establishing a theory on Indigenous
Australian entrepreneurship’, published in the refereed Proceedings for the 54 th Annual Conference for the International Council
of Small Business, Dublin, Ireland, 11–14 June.
Hunter, B. and Gray, M. 2011. ‘Revisiting what discourages Indigenous discouraged workers?’ presented to the Australian
Conference of Economists, the ANU, Canberra, 12 July.
Hunter, B.H. 2005. ‘Changes in the economic, health and social status of Indigenous Australians in remote and settled Australia,
1994-2002’, in Proceedings of the 34th Conference of Economists, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, 26–28 September.
Hunter, B., Kennedy, S. and Smith, D. 2002. ‘Sensitivity of Australian Income Distributions to Choice of Equivalence Scales:
Exploring Some Parameters of Indigenous Incomes’, in T. Eardley and B. Bradbury (eds), Competing Visions: Proceedings of the
National Social Policy Conference, Sydney 4–6 July 2001, SPRC Report 1/02, SPRC, University of New South Wales, Sydney.
Discussion/working papers not yet published elsewhere (http://online.anu.edu.au/caepr/)
Hunter, B.H., Radoll, P., Schwab, R.G. Crawford, H.A., Biddle, N. and Gray, M.C. 2015. ‘Business-related studies and
Indigenous Australian students’, Working Paper 100, CAEPR, The ANU, Canberra.
Howlett, M., Gray, M. and Hunter, B. 2015. ‘Unpacking the income of Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians: Wages,
government payments and other income’, Working Paper 99, CAEPR, The ANU, Canberra.
Gray, M., Hunter, B. and Biddle, N. 2014. ‘The economic and social benefits of increasing Indigenous employment’, CAEPR
Topical Issue 1/2014, CAEPR, The ANU, Canberra.
Hunter, B. 2014. In ‘Submission to Forrest Review’, in E. Klein (Compiler) ‘Academic Perspectives On The Forrest Review:
Creating Parity’, Topical Issue 2/2014, CAEPR, The ANU, Canberra, 13–4.
Hunter, B. Howlett, M. and Biddle, N. 2014. ‘Modelling Exposure to Risk of Experiencing Discrimination in the Context of
Endogenous Ethnic Identification’, IZA Discussion Paper No. 8040, IZA, Berlin (available at http://ftp.iza.org/dp8040.pdf).*
Hunter, B. Howlett, M. and Gray, M. 2014. ‘The Mining Boom and Indigenous Socio-economic status’, Working Paper 93,
CAEPR, The ANU, Canberra.
Hunter, B. and Yap, M. 2014. ‘Income, Work and Education: Insights for Closing the Gap in Urban Australia’, Working Paper
92, CAEPR, The ANU, Canberra.
Gray, M., Hunter, B. and Howlett, M. 2013. 'Indigenous Employment: A Story of Continuing Growth', Topical Issue 2/ 2013,
CAEPR, The ANU, Canberra.
Hunter, B. and Stephenson, N. (2013). ‘Less Is More: Reflections On The Overcoming Indigenous Disadvantage Reports’ Topical
Issue No 1/2013, CAEPR, The ANU, Canberra.
Hunter, B. 2012. ‘Selected issues for closing the income gaps between Indigenous and other Australians, 2001-11’, Topical Issue
No 1/2013, CAEPR, The ANU, Canberra.
Gray M, Hunter, B. & Lohoar, S. 2012. Increasing Indigenous employment rates. Issues Paper No. 3 Closing the Gap
Clearinghouse. Canberra: Australian Institute of Health and Welfare & Melbourne: Australian Institute of Family Studies
(HERDC accredited: download http://www.aihw.gov.au/closingthegap/publications/).
J. Taylor, M. Gray, B. Hunter, M. Yap and J. Lahn 2012. ‘Higher Education and the Growth of Indigenous Participation in
Professional and Managerial Occupations’, Working Paper 81, CAEPR, ANU, Canberra.
Gray, M. and Hunter, B. 2011. ‘Changes in Indigenous labour force status: Establishing employment as a social norm?’, Topical
Issue 7/2011, CAEPR, ANU, Canberra.
Hunter, B. and Biddle, N. 2011. ‘Migration, labour demand, housing markets and the drought in regional Australia’, Research
Paper 49, Australian Institute of Family Studies, Melbourne (pp.32).
Hunter, B. 2010. ‘Pathways for Indigenous school leavers to undertake training or gain employment’, A resource sheet produced
for the Closing the Gap Clearinghouse, Australian Institute of Health and Welfare/Australian Institute of Family Studies,
Canberra/Melbourne (pp.13).
Biddle, N. and Hunter, B. 2006. A note on the geography and dynamics of local CDEP scheme rates, 1999 to 2004, unpubished
mimeo available online at http://www.anu.edu.au/caepr/.
Hunter, B. 2005. ‘A tale of two nations: The divergent pathways for Indigenous labour force outcomes in Australia & New
Zealand since 1991’ Working Paper No. 5, Centre for Indigenous Governance and Development, Massey University, Palmerston
North, New Zealand.
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Altman, J.C. and Hunter, B. 2005. Rejoinder to ‘Key Social and Economic Indicators for Indigenous Australia: A Comparative
Analysis’, CAEPR, ANU, Canberra.
Biddle, N., Hunter, B. and Schwab, R.G. 2004. ‘Mapping Indigenous educational participation’ CAEPR Discussion Paper No
267, CAEPR, ANU, Canberra.
Hunter, B. 2002. ‘Institutional factors underpinning Indigenous labour force participation: The role of the CDEP scheme and
education’ CAEPR Working Paper No. 14, CAEPR, ANU, Canberra.
Altman, J.C., Hunter, B. Ward, S., and Wright, F. 2002. ‘Some competition and consumer issues in the Indigenous visual arts
industry’ CAEPR Discussion Paper No. 235, CAEPR, ANU, Canberra.
Hunter, B. 2001. ‘Indigenous Australian arrest rates: Economic and social factors underlying the incidence and number of arrests’
CAEPR Working Paper No. 10, CAEPR, ANU, Canberra.
Hunter, B. 2000. ‘Social exclusion, social capital and Indigenous Australians: measuring the social costs of unemployment’,
CAEPR Discussion Paper No. 204, CAEPR, ANU, Canberra.
Hunter, B. 1999.’Three Nations, Not One: Indigenous and Other Australian Poverty’, CAEPR Working Paper No. 1, Centre for
Aboriginal Economic and Policy Research, ANU, Canberra.
Hunter, B. 1999. ‘Indigenous self-employment: miracle cure or risky business’, CAEPR Discussion Paper No. 176, Centre for
Aboriginal Economic and Policy Research, ANU, Canberra.
Hunter, B. and Schwab, R.G. 1998. ‘The Determinants of Indigenous Educational Outcomes’, CAEPR Discussion Paper No. 160,
CAEPR, ANU, Canberra.
Gregory R.G. and Hunter, B. 1997. ‘The Macroeconomy and the growth of income and employment inequality in Australian
cities’, Canadian International Labour Market Network, Department of Economics, McMaster University, Toronto (available at
http://labour.ciln.mcmaster.ca/papers/cilnwp03.html) *
Hunter, B. 1996. ‘Indigenous Australians and the socioeconomic status of urban neighbourhoods’, CAEPR Discussion Paper No.
106, CAEPR, ANU, Canberra
Hunter, B. 1996. ‘Explaining changes in the social structure of employment: the importance of geography’, Social Policy
Research Centre Discussion Paper No 67, Social Policy Research Centre, University of New South Wales, Sydney (available in
electronic format at http://www.sprc.unsw.edu.au/dp/index.htm).
Altman, J.C. and Hunter, B. 1996. ‘The comparative economic status of CDEP and non-CDEP community residents in the
Northern Territory in 1991’, CAEPR Discussion Paper No. 107, CAEPR, ANU, Canberra.
Taylor J. and Hunter, B. 1996. ‘Indigenous participation in labour market and training programs’, CAEPR Discussion Paper No.
108, CAEPR, ANU, Canberra.
Gregory R.G. and Hunter, B. 1995. ‘The Macroeconomy and the growth of ghettos and urban poverty in Australia’, Centre for
Economic Policy Research Discussion Paper No. 325, Centre for Economic Policy Research, ANU, Canberra *
SERVICE TO PROFESSION
Refereeing of prospective articles for the Australian Bulletin of Labour, Australian Economic Review, Australian Economic
History Review, Australian Geographer, Australian Journal of Indigenous Issues, Australian Journal of Labour Economics,
Australian Journal of Social Issues, Economic Papers, The Economic Record, Ethnicity and Health, Family Matters, Health
Economics, International Journal of Manpower, Journal of Economic and Social Policy, Journal of Population Economics,
Journal of Population Research, and Lancet . I also reviewed books for Aboriginal Studies Press. Also provided numerous
assessments for the Australian Research Council and Canadian Research Council as well as providing formal comments on
Reports for Government Departments, The Australian Institute of Family Studies, AIATSIS, NSW Bureau of Crime Statistics and
Research, and Reconciliation Australia. Supervising doctoral students in Antropology and Public Policy Programs and the School
of Business and Information Management. Also supervised post-graduate students in statistics course, ‘Case Studies in
Econometrics’ given at the Faculty of Economics and Commerce.
Many submissions to public inquiries including: Commonwealth Grants Commission Inquiry into Indigenous Funding in 2000;
and a submission to the Senate Community Affairs References Committee Inquiry into Poverty and Financial Hardship in
Australia (with Jon Altman, and Melissa Johns) on CAEPR’s research on Indigenous Poverty. More recently, I made oral and
written submissions to the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Affairs Inquiry
into Indigenous Employment (with Dennis Foley, and Matthew Gray) and the 2008 Inquiry ‘Developing Indigenous
Entrepreneurs—The Road to Economic Independence’ (with Dennis Foley). Productivity Commission Inquiry (with Nikki
Stephenson), 'Less is More: Reflections on the Overcoming Indigenous Disadvantage Reports', A Submission into the independent
review of the Overcoming Indigenous Disadvantage Reports, ACER, Melbourne. Also made a submission to the Forrest Review in
2014 that provided critical feedback on the report titled ‘Creating Parity’. Also, 24 major consultancy reports provided to
government, private sector, philanthropies and Indigenous organisations.